Newsman: While the covid-19 surge reaches record high in a row everyday in US, Vice President Mike Pence received the Covid-19 vaccine in a televised appearance this morning in an effort to promote its safety and boost public confidence in its effectiveness. President-elect Joe Biden is expected to receive the vaccine as soon as next week. “I don’t want to get ahead of the line, but I want to make sure we demonstrate to the American people that it is safe to take,” Biden told reporters. The white house coronavirus taskforce member NIAID director Dr Anthony Foucy, CDC director Dr. Robert Redfield,US Secretary of health and Human services Alex Azar was present at this event in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building during this high profile vaccination event.
Second lady Karen Pence, and Surgeon General Jerome Adams were also given the Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building near the the White House by a medical team from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. But it’s unclear, meanwhile, if and when President Donald Trump will receive the Covid-19 vaccine. Trump has said he looks forward to getting the vaccine “at the appropriate time.” President Trump and first lady Melania Trump recovered from Covid in October.
Vice President Pence said in his remarks “I didn’t feel a thing. Well done,” after receiving the shot. He called it a “medical miracle,” saying that the average vaccine usually takes between eight to 12 years to develop, manufacture and distribute. “But we’re on track here in the United States to administer millions of doses to the American people in less than one year. It is a miracle indeed,” he said.
Mike Pence thanked ‘the great work’ at the National Institute of Health, and the great and careful work of the FDA and the leadership of our president and Operation Warp Speed. “The American people can be confident we have one, and perhaps within hours, two safe and effective coronavirus vaccines for you and for your family” Mike Pence added. Doctors advised all three people that they must return in 21 days for the second dose of the vaccine and that they may feel some soreness around the injection site.
DEC. 18, 202005:59
